TIBURON, Calif— March 09, 2015: The descriptor of "steady" may not excite, but given the volatility in the workstation market over the last seven years, steady ain't too bad. For those looking to forget the nasty economy of the late 00's, and whose nerves were frayed by the up-and-down rollercoaster that came with the subsequent recovery, the fourth quarter's solid, un-stressful 6.3% year-over year growth will do just fine. Worldwide, the industry shipped approximately 1.03 million workstations in Q4'14, equating to a within-cyclical-norms 1.4% sequential growth. The fourth quarter saw the first significant volume of many new deskside workstations built on Intel's…

Graphics processors, stand-alone discrete devices, and embedded processor-based GPUs are ubiquitous and essential components in all systems and device today from handheld mobile devices, PCs, and workstations, to TVs, servers, vehicle systems, signage, game consoles, medical equipment, and wearables. New technologies and semiconductor manufacturing processes are taking advantage of the ability of GPU power to scale. The GPU drives the screen of every device we encounter—it is the humane-machine interface. The fourth quarter is typically flat to up in the seasonality cycles of the past and was below the ten-year average of 6.86%. Quick highlights: AMD’s overall unit shipments decreased -6.95%…

Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics add-in-board (AIB) shipments and suppliers’ market share for 2014 4Q. JPR’s AIB Report tracks computer add-in graphics boards, which carry discrete graphics chips. AIBs used in desktop PCs, workstations, servers, and other devices such as scientific instruments. They are sold directly to customers as aftermarket products, or are factory installed. In all cases, AIBs represent the higher end of the graphics industry using discrete chips and private high-speed memory, as compared to the integrated GPUs in CPUs that share slower system memory. The news…

TIBURON, CA, December 09 2014—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research, and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated personal mobile devices graphics chip shipments for 2014. Personal mobile devices include smartphones, and tablets. This report covers the market for GPUs in mobile (Personal) and Portable (notebook and game machine) devices. Total GPU market opportunity in all mobile platforms is 3,575 million units in 2018. The report examines and explains the leading industry trends: Market slowdown will lead to consolidation. There are too many SoC suppliers chasing the same customers. Those with thinner margins will fail as the all forgiving…

TIBURON, Calif— December 01, 2014. The market for workstations remains a healthy one. Jon Peddie Research, the leading research firm tracking the workstation industry, reports that the market held onto most of its previous and substantial gains, seeing its second-highest volume total in the third quarter of 2014. Worldwide, the industry shipped approximately 1.02 million workstations last quarter, posting a 4.7% gain over the same quarter a year ago, along with a modest 2.8% quarterly decline over Q2'14's all-time high. Looking forward, JPR Senior Analyst, Alex Herrera, expects to see the market's momentum continue. "The third quarter marked the official launch…

TIBURON, CA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - October 02, 2014) - The Virtualize Conference by graphics experts Jon Peddie Research is coming to the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport on October 30, 2014. The first event of its kind, Virtualize will include a tutorial, speakers, panels, and real world information and guidance on Remote Graphics, Remote Workstations and Virtualization. Today, JPR released a partial list of speakers including experts from, Boeing, Dreamworks, Onlive and VMware who will talk about the ways in which they've made virtualization work in their organizations by extending graphics and workstation resources to the people working both…

TIBURON, Calif— September 8, 2014. - Characterizing any mature market's quarterly performance as "breakout" verges upon oxymoron. After all, no one is going to confuse the well-established workstation market with a hot emerging market, nor should the former ever expect to see the big quarter-to-quarter growth numbers of the latter. However, in light of a lackluster recent history coupled with rampant negativity associated with any PC-related market as of late, leading analyst firm Jon Peddie Research (JPR) is calling Q2'14 for the workstation market just that: a breakout quarter. Completing its compilation and analysis of market results for the second quarter,…

TIBURON, Calif.--- In response to a recent survey of end users and managers regarding their interest and knowledge of remote graphics, remote workstations and virtualized computing, Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, has announced Virtualize, the company’s first conference on the subject of Remote Graphics and Virtualization (RG&V) as it applies to businesses both large and small. “Based on the results of our survey, there is clearly a lot of confusion over this nascent category, which is not too unusual given its relative newness,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of JPR. “However, interest…

Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated graphics add-in-board (AIB) shipments and suppliers’ market share for 2014 2Q. The quarter in general JPR found that AIB shipments during Q2 2014 behaved according to past years with regard to seasonality, but the decrease was more than the 10-year average. The news was disappointing, quarter-to-quarter, the market dropped 17.5 % (compared to the desktop PC market, which increased 1.3%). Total AIB shipments decreased this quarter to 11.5 million units from last quarter. AMD’s quarter-to-quarter total desktop AIB unit shipments decreased 10.7%. Nvidia’s quarter-to-quarter unit…

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